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Originally Posted by Liz C
My questions are
which one did your team use the most and why?
also, if anyone had omni, or "wonder", wheels in the front, did you encounter the problem of getting onto the zone?
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Over the course of two regionals, with two quarter-finals, and a semi-final, our human players never left the mat. They really did a great job; never got a single human player penalty.
We decided early on to go with speed versus quantity. Human player loading was just too slow. OTOH, the autoloader was always loaded and ready for us to snatch a tetra, or we'd simply snatch one off the floor.
Robots that carried multiple tetras, on the other hand, almost always needed the human to stack them on. We decided against that for a number of reasons. The first was that as the opponents were much more likely to defend against a stacked robot. The second was that in the same amount of time it took them to load and deliver four or five tetras to one or two goals, we could deliver four or five tetras to four or five goals. And finally was the dreaded disablement if the HP accidentally touched the robot or a loaded tetra.